Knee timber


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timber with knees or angles in it.

See also: Knee

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Such dispositions, are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber, to make great politics of; like to knee timber, that is good for ships, that are ordained to be tossed; but not for building houses, that shall stand firm.
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